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[b]American kid's [/b]should not be inconvenienced by others who came illegally. And yeah if a kid shows up in the 5th grade without a word of English spoken, he/she is a 'new arrival' likely of the kind without documents[/quote]

No way is English your native language. This is a simple plural.  No possessive in sight.

But speaking as an ESOL teacher in a DCC high school, yes, most kids are here illegally, particularly  the ones from Central America.  They are illiterate even if they say they attended up to 8th grade in their country.  We have "Spanish for Spanish speakers" classes and they do abysmally in reading, writing, grammar, etc., even in Spanish.  I minored in Spanish in college and I am constancy correcting their verb tenses when they speak. They are, in effect, hillbillies.  These are not diplomats' kids.   Many of the HS students have only a year or two of elementary education, and they do mostly drop out.  There are not enough resources to teach a 15 year old how to add 3 + 2 (not kidding). [/quote]

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